CMAPEI Museum Study Tours: Best Practices

Join us on our Next Tour!Study Tour: Best Practices January 22-23, 2018at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, the Nova Scotia Museum of Nature, and the Naval Museum of Halifax!

Overview about our Tours

Best Practices for Exhibit Development Study Tour

Study Tours provide the opportunity to look at the museum’s collections, exhibit layout, and discuss the planning, training, and preparation undertaken as part of exhibit development.​Participants will travel to museums in Nova Scotia to have an opportunity to speak with other museum professionals and learn techniques in developing exhibit themes, storylines, evaluate and work in the community. They will gain knowledge about regional resources and bring back ideas that can make work in their own exhibits to achieve high standards.This study tour will be a two-day trip to Nova Scotia to visit the Nova Scotia Museum of Nature and one other museum.Objectives:

See what best practices initiatives and procedures have been utilized by Nova Scotia museums for their exhibit development

Learn techniques used in exhibit planning in other regional museums

Learn how other museums train staff in exhibits

Learn from case histories how to plan successful exhibitions

See which artefacts/exhibits have been given priority due to their provincial and national importance to Nova Scotia museums

Increased competency and awareness in techniques associated with exhibits

Increased awareness of the types of successful exhibit themes

Reproduction of audience engaging design features in Island museum exhibits

Creating relationships that may lead to traveling exhibits or increase of loans between Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia